Half finished projects

OpenWRT on a new router. The wifi works better, ethernet works up to 980Mbit/s and I don't have all my traffic routed trough a Huawei device.

And it allows you to configure everything.

Slowly building up my self hosted test env in a VM on my gaming PC.

Most recently playing with homepage so I don't have to remember as many sub domains.

Eventually I will get the *arr stack going so my jellyseerr instance is more automated.

Helle there ! It's still Saturday here :p !

I recently setup weechat (IRC) and learned about bouncers. From what I understand it's similar to a proxy but with backlogging IRC conversation. I'm still new to it and have a lot a new things to learn.

I'm thinking to self-host my personal bouncer on some cheap VPS.

Other than that was busy with encoding with av1an and encode my bluray library to AV1 codec :).

I also recently self-hosted metube (yt-dlp web frontend) to download some music from RiMusic. Still need to work on a shortcut with HTTPS shortcut on Android !

My job let me buy a bunch of Pis to set up a cluster for a demo so I’m having a lot of fun

I know this isn't sexy but I've been working on my documentation. Getting configs etc properly versioned in my gitea instance, readmes updated etc. My memory is not what it once was and I need the hints when things break.

A couple of days ago, after testing it myself for a few months to make sure I understood how everything works, I made the switch to NextCloud Calendar, and will no longer use Google Calendar.

This is the best part though... I somehow convinced my wife to do the same. She let me install the NextCloud app(optional for Calendar stuff but makes the setup easier) and DAVx^5^ on her phone (both from F-Droid, so DAVx^5^ was free). I exported and imported her calendar, and made sure the notifications were set up to her preferred default.

It's multiple days later, and she hasn't complained!

I've also moved all of my contacts over to NextCloud, but have yet to coerce my spouse to do the same.

I have recently setup my paperless-ngx instance and have uploaded all my scanned documents. Now I have to tag all that stuff which seems like a lot of work. So I'm looking into paperless-ai... 🧞

I lost all my inpsiration after my last install. I've literally just got immich and a raid array. I want to add a few things:

• Public facing website
• Jellyfin
• VPN server
• Individuous
• XMPP

I. Build a PC for video editing because it was becoming impossible to do on the laptop. I realized that I can use the GPU also to run large language models myself.

So this week I've been setting up ollama and Open WebUI to be able to move some of my queries I ask ChatGPT and ask them on my computer, even if I'm away.

This way I don't need to send sensitive data to the USA and China. It works quite well but I only can use smaller models up to 14B because of the 12 GB VRAM my graphics card only has.

I'm currently half way thru building a ZFS array using (5) 8tb Ironwolf Pro drives. I'm modelling and 3d printing a custom drive cage with brackets to hold them all inside the shitty Dell tower case I have dedicated to it. Hoping I can get it done sometime Sunday, I'm on V2 of the drive cage print and it takes like 8 hours to do lol.

My 8GB soquartz CM4 has a broken memory chip and I can't return it, so I am contemplating whether I should throw it in the oven and hope for the best or whether somebody wants to buy a half broken one unbaked ...

Managed to set up immich remote machine learning (old 7th gen Optiplex to gaming PC). If only I bought an nvidia card.. I wasn't able to get it my AMD 7800 XT to work with immich ML.. Next up is setting up microservices because immich is crippling my unraid server 🤦🏼😭

My girlfriends phone was having issues connecting to self hosted servers, so I set her DNS from private to network default. Hope this helps any android users that may have issues.

I've been trying to learn K8s and more recently the Gateway API. The struggles are that most Helm charts don't know Gateway (most are barely Ingressroute) and I'm trying to find a solution to one service affecting the other gateways.when a service cannot find a pod, the httproute fails and when one route fails, the ingress fails. It's a weird cascading problem.

Right now, I'm considering adding a secondary service to each gateway that resolves to a static error page. I haven't looked into it yet; it cane to me in the brief moment of clarity before I fell asleep last night.

Also, I may be doing everything wrong, but I am learning and learning is fun.

Today I'm experimenting with Ansible. Wanna try setting up a Docker hosted RSS reader with it. Hopefully will write up controls for my whole Docker server with Ansible once I'm more familiar.

I changed my proxmox server from zfs raid pool to software raid with mdadm. Saved me a ton of ram and cheap ssd's don't really like zfs, so it's a win win. And while messing around with drive setups I also changed the system around a bit. Previously it had only single ssd with LVM and 7x4TB drives with zfs but as I don't really need that much storage it's now running 3x1TB SSD + 4x4TB HDD, both with software raid5 so 2TB of fast(ish, they're still sata drives) storage and 12TB (or 10,6 in the real wold, TB vs TiB) of spinning rust storage.

Well enough for my needs and I finally have enough fast storage for my immich server to maintain all the photos and videos over 20+ years. Took "a while" to copy ~5TB over 1gig lan to other system and back, but it's now done and the copying didn't need babysitting in the first place, so not too big of a deal. Biggest unexpected issue was that my 3,5" hdd hotswap cradles didn't have option to mount 2,5" drives so I had to shut down the server and open the case to mount the drives.

And while doing that my piHole was down, so the whole network didn't have DNS server around. I'd need to either set up another pihole server or just set up some scripts to the router to change DNS offerings to dhcp clients while pihole is down and shorten the lease time to few minutes.

Moved my fediverse apps friendica, lemmy, 35c. (only user is me) to one server since it was overkill having 2 barely using 8% if that if their cpu/ram. Suprisingly easy with yunohost backups, remade users and restored backup if just the apps. Updated enhance panel, switched the sites im making for family to use as a portfolio for local webdev to ols, fairly easy,, was using wordpress templates wrong so I fixed that and redid the home pages, now I feel less confident with wordpress and wonder if ive always made sites wrong, think i just forgot since its been years.

I'm starting to see mastodon users on my tiny pixelfed server. It's such a good feeling.

On the sad side, my Lemmy update went south and I had to remove it off my setup. Still looking for a good replacement for max two users. Something dirt simple like GoToSocial turned out to be.

Installed grocy on a server and magic mirror on a pi. Now we can track all the daily tasks of life which makes my wife happy

Setting up let's encrypt auto cert renewal with ACME. Also looking to setup some monitoring service, basic stuff like CPU, memory usage etc. If anyone has recommendations that have an android app available, that would be awesome.

I finally set up Joplin server. It is a revelation after too long using Syncthing to sync databases. I wasn't able to use Joplin on Android anymore- the sync to file system had gotten too slow. Now everything syncs pretty much instantly!

I setup a VPN for my moms Synology so I can request and download media for her through my local qbit instance and using Radarr/Sonarr to move the files over.

I have a problem where both arrs don't auto start when I power up the debian VM in Proxmox even though the daemon is running and restart policy is set to always...

She doesn't make a lot of requests so I just go and start them manually but I would eventually like to get it fixed..

Finally managed to set up tvheadend with rebreoadcasted IPTV from a private group witg functioning and automated import into jellyfin.
Works very well (if the IP stream doesnt crash)

Working on testing stalwart... And will need to organize and document properly my various nft rules and routing tables, because its slightly getting out of hand...

I had my VPS go down due to a PSU issue. Os there any legal recourse for getting my 0.14% of the monthly cost back?

Scripting enlarging 2400 10x10 png files to 512x512 Stable Diffusion generated images that look like high resolution cityscapes in the style of Salvador Dali. I can't get the API to spit out a single image.